Improvement in bottle-stoppers and stopper-fasteners



W. SILVESTER. Bottle-Stopper and yStopper-1?@steuer.

A No. 211,529. Patented-1an. 21,1879.

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IVILLIAM SILVESTER, 0F PITTSBURG, PA., ASSIGNOR TO Gr. H. ZAOHARIAS AND W. J. RADCLIFF, OF SAME PLACE, ONE-THIRD TO EACH.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-STOPPERS AND STOPPER-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 211,529, dated January 21, 1879; application filed October 30, 1878.

To all whom it lmay concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM SrLvEsrER, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Stoppers, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

Figure l of the drawings represents a perspectiveview of my improved bottle-stopper withdrawn. Fig. 2 designates a perspective view with the stopper inserted in the mouth of a bottle. Fig. 3 represents a perspective view of the plate by which the stopper is held. Fig. 4 designates the band which encircles the neck ofthe bottle.

This invention has relation to improvements in bottle-stoppers; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement ot' the several parts connected therewith, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

The annexed drawings, to which reference is made, fully illustrate my invention.

A designates the neck of a bottle; A', the top or mouth of the saine, which is constructed inl the usual and well-known form.

B represents the stopper, composed of any' suitable material, having a neck, which is passed through the perforations c3 in the center of the plate (l, after which the head of the stopper is fastened above the upper part of said plate G, thereby securing the stopper to the plate C.

At one side of said plate is formed a hook, c1, and at the opposite side of the same is formed a downwardly-projecting bent arm, c2, the continuation of which serves as a thumbpiece, c, for fastening and unfastenin g the stopper from the bottle, all of which will be hereinafter more fully explained. D represents a band of any suitable material, one end of which is provided with an eye, d2. The opposite end of the same is also provided with a tongue, cl3, for the purpose of interlocking with the eye d? when bent around the neck of a bottle. rlhis band D is also provided with arms Dl D2 arising from said band, one of which is perforated atd to receive the hook c1. The other arm, D2, terminates in a hook, d1, to receive the bent arm c2 of the plate C.

The operation of my bottle-stopper in fastening and unfastening the same is as follows:

In order to apply this device to the neck ot' a bottle, it is necessary to bend the band D around the neck of the bottle, thereby bringing the ends d2 d3 together and inserting the tongue in the eye d2; then, giving the tongue d3 a slight bendprevents the parts from being detached.

To insert the stopper in the mouth of the bottle, the hook cI is passed into the eye d of the arm D1; then, by a slight pressure on the thumb-piece c, the bent arm c2 is brought down and under the hook dl, and held securely in place by the upward pressure of the stopper B and the plate G against the hooks cl d'.

To unfasten the stopper B, a slight pressureon the thumb-piece c will cause the bent arm czto separate from the hook d1,- then, a sidewise movement of said thumb-piece c will allow the stopper to be easily removed.

I do not wish to conine myself to this particular kind of stopper, as it may be made in various ways, one of which may be made in one piece and fastened together after being applied to the plate C; but I prefer making it of two pieces, forming a groove encircling the same near the top thereof.

I may substitute for the hook d1 and bent arm c2 a pin, a, depending from the thumbpiece c to about the center of the arm D?, to

engage with a hole, a', made in the same to.

receive the hook end of the depending pin a.

`The hole c may be elongated downwardly, and having at the bottom a slot made at right angles thereto, representing in appearance the capital letter L. (Not shown.)

I am aware that bands encircling the neck of a bottle for the adjustment ot' stoppers in bottles has heretofore been done, as shown in patent of Clark, N o. 153,746, dated August 4,

1874, and English patentof Cooper, N o. 3,27 8 hook d1 and hole or slot a', and arm D1, hevfor '187 7, and therefore do not claim what is ing sta-ple d, substantially as and for the puroontaiined therein; but pose set forth.

What I do claim is- The combinetiolniwithstopper B, having WILLIAM SILVESTER' the encircling-plete C, with circuler orifice c3, Witnesses: hook cl, and bend c2, thumb-disk c, and hook ED. VITTISH, a, of the band D, having arm D2, with its J'. FRANK GoNDoN. 

